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This is the edition broadcast on Radio 4.

On Thursday the 23rd of June 2016.

Here's Kate Adi.

Hello. Today, it may be relatively peaceful, but the economy in Iraqi Kurdistan is

spluttering and freedom is some way off.

In Ecuador, we mix precious metals with football and strange

concoctions. We hear how listening to your opponent's point of view isn't

something Ethiopians welcome very much and in America we wait 17 years for

them and then the critters just fly into our correspondence face. The Republic of

Macedonia is in political turmoil.

For months now there have been anti-government demonstrations on the streets of the capital

and in other towns and cities.

This small country which became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991 is hoping to join both the EU and NATO.

So far though its ambitions have been blocked by Greece.

Athens says the name Macedonia was stolen from a northern Greek province.

Many worry a cold shoulder from Brussels has bolstered an increasingly unaccountable elite in the Republic's capital, Skopje.

The latest protests are being dubbed the colourful revolution, and as Lucy Ash explains, its

buildings and statues that are their target.

Two beefy men biceps bulging are at either end of a rope.

Another protester clutching a basket attached to a stretchy cord lies on the ground behind them.

Then he releases his grip and a balloon filled with paint sails through the air.

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